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After ten days of Christian conference and patient protocol at Johnstown, Pa., 700 delegates from two churches last week went home as delegates from one. The United Brethren and the Evangelical Church had joined to form the Evangelical United Brethren Church-13th largest Protestant denomination...
Foreshadowings. The U.N., in its 13th month of existence, was no longer in acute danger of disruption, as it had been at its first meeting in London, early this year. It now faced the chronic and perhaps more serious crisis of paralysis through the stubborn inflexibility of its component parts. To stave off U.N.'s slow death by deadlock, many people looked to Trygve Halvdan Lie (pronounced Lee), the U.N.'s Secretary-General, its chief administrative officer, the man who stood closer than any other single individual to U.N.'s mechanism, if not to its heart...
Howard A. Coffin, 62, humorous, hefty general manager of the White Star Division of the Socony Vacuum Oil Co.; winner for the Republicans in Detroit's poor, melting-pot 13th District...
...cops drove up, observed the proceedings and went into the caretaker's office to keep warm. Since the veterans were deserving 13th Ward boys, no 13th Ward politician was inclined to disturb them. In fact, a few precinct captains hurried around to help. Nobody interfered as the squatters began bringing furniture and clothes and getting their wives and children settled...
...There was no violence. Pittsburgh just suffered, got along with barely adequate power, depended on autos for transportation; A.F.L. trolley and bus drivers still refused to cross the Duquesne workers' picket lines. Some 100,000 people were thrown out of work. Only hope for a settlement on the 13th day of the strike: Government seizure of Duquesne Light...